Low at 20
By Barrett Chase on Mar 18, 2013 in History, Music
In yesterday’s story in the DNT, Alan Sparhawk, sound engineer Eric Swanson, musicians Marc Gartman, Amy Abts and Tony Bennett, and Low’s former nanny Scott “Starfire” Lunt all weigh in on the band’s 20 years of music.
It’s a great conversation and it’s one I think is worth continuing here as Low commemorates its second decade in the business and its 10th studio album, which hits the shelves on Tuesday.
What are your favorite Low memories, whether you know the band or you’re just a fan of their music?
A coupe of good memories:
- Things We Lost in the Fire, played in its entirety, at Washington Studios
- Alan playing Low songs solo in the gym at Emerson
By the way, The Invisible Way is very, very, very good.
There is kind of a quadruple slam of anniversaries this year.
20 years of Low
15 years of Homegrown
10 years of Trampled by Turtles
10 years of PDD
I still remember Matt Pinfield introducing the video for “Over the Ocean” on 120 Minutes. It was probably the first time the word “Duluth” was uttered on MTV.
You can buy an original copy of Things We Lost in the Fire on Amazon. You’ll probably even be able to get it signed by the artists! I like how they sing Amazing Grace.
Oh, by the way:
Low plays “Holy Ghost” live at Saki
All Hail Low! First Memory = Booking them at Urban Grounds. Best Memory =
@Lundgren
“20 years of Low
15 years of Homegrown
10 years of Trampled by Turtles
10 years of PDD”
And T57 is “Dinosaurs”?
You’re not insinuating that it’s bad to be a dinosaur, are you?
Things We Lost in the Fire in its entirety at old Washington Jr. was a highlight, along with every show that I saw at Sacred Heart.
I can’t wait for their Denver show and to hear the new record.
Concert to save the music program at Lowell Elementary School. Calmly playing “Belarus” and (Sarah you’re) “Lazy” in the gymnasium, before the children grabbed maracas and grooved in the snake pit with all the generous Duluthians.
It was 1992, I believe. My best memories are accidentally hearing them practice at Emerson before they released their first album and also seeing them perform at RecyclaBell. I’d never heard music like that before and became an instant fan. It also changed the way I viewed my own music. The release of Things We Lost in the Fire at Sacred Heart is another fond memory, too.
“Low’s road to The Invisible Way”
Nice photo. Sparhawk must have picked something up from Baron Von Rashke when they met all those years ago.
And that is all the people need to know!
Maybe Phil Harder will give Al a cameo in the Baron Von Rashke documentary like the Baron got in the Low movie.
I agree with @markjoberg. Low had been hired to play its album Things We Lost in the Fire in London and, just before the band flew over for the gig, Starfire posted up the intimate practice show on PDD. It was July 23, 2006, and this is what it looked like:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/duluthiscool/316232328/
Photo by me.
Yeah, the new album is awesome. Congrats to Low on another good one!
After two decades in production with director Philip Harder, the Low movie How to Quit Smoking is finished. It premieres at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Film Festival on April 12 and surely will make it to Duluth soon. An early cut of it was screened in Duluth two or three years ago.
And here is Low with 3/5 of Trampled by Turtles at Fitzgerald Theater.
Philip Harder talks about the movie on MPR …